I never got use to aptitude, but I think "now's the time"... :)

On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 1:39 PM, IOhannes m zmoelnig <zmoelnig@iem.at> wrote:
On 2010-05-20 14:30, Pedro Lopes wrote:
> Im having a similar problem in my netbook, I have pd-extended installed from
> a deb package and if I try:
>
> pedro@bird-nb:~$ sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends puredata

then i would recommend everybody to use aptitude and check why the
package manager wants to uninstall pd-extended.
and then resolve the issues.

everything else is guesswork, and i feel i have already spent too much
time guessing.



> The following packages will be REMOVED:
>   pd-extended
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>   puredata
> 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

and one more guess: maybe your pd-extended was already marked for
removal before that.

fghmsdf
IOhannes




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